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Chief Engineer
DP390X
// Shipping out
It’s been two weeks since the Orkney shipped out and she’s holding together. I don’t know how many trips she’s been on now, but I don’t think she has many left in her. It’s a damn shame. They don’t make these tubs anymore and parts are getting harder to find.
Sure, they run a little hot and the fuel efficiency is way below company standards, but they always get you where you’re going without any drama. Which is more than I can say for the cheap haulers Sonmi is rolling out. There’s no way I’m serving on a ship designed by a computer. I don’t care how good they say they are.
We’ll be docking at Neptune waystation in a couple of days, then it’s off to the colony. I’ve never liked these interstellar jobs, but for a full share I’d fly into a black hole.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Isaac Tavares
Corporate Envoy
ET526P
// Fitting in
Setting up a colony in another system involves paperwork like you wouldn’t believe. I feel like I haven’t left my quarters in days. But it’s an honour to be chosen as Sonmi’s representative on Nysa. My father would have been proud.
Spacers are always guarded around company reps. That's how it's always been. I can feel the crew tense up when I’m in the room. So I’m trying to make myself useful and help around the ship, at least when I’m not elbow-deep in manifests, inventories, and contracts. Which isn’t often.
We’re way out of stable comms range now, but I’m still logging reports as instructed. When we reach the relay in Proxima I’ll transmit them back to the flagship. I’m Sonmi’s eyes and ears while the Orkney is in the black.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Andrew Semyonov
Navigator
HG347R
// Mood swings
I asked Kirbuk why she named her ship the Orkney. She said she didn’t and gave me a look that suggested I drop it. A look I’m sure I’ll be very familiar with by the time we dock. I feel like I’m getting in the way when I'm on the bridge, but sometimes she seems almost desperate to speak to me. Her mood changes like the weather.
I wonder if Huck’s still awake.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Intranet
Direct Message
FT567E
AS: You still up?
RH: Of course I am.
AS: I found some more vids on a drive in the rec room. Really old stuff. Classics.
RH: Nice.
AS: Ever seen The Shining?
RH: Yeah, I love Kubrick.
AS: I’m gonna watch it now. I’m wired.
RH: Cool, I’ll come over. Deep space missions always wreck my sleep cycle. See you in ten.
AS: Bring snacks.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Isaac Tavares
Corporate Envoy
YT794K
// Report A-439
=== CONFIDENTIAL ===
To: sonmi_so
From: itavares
Chief Engineer Keyes (employee #655321) has made some irregular alterations to the pulse drive, which his contract expressly forbids. I’ve logged the diagnostics as evidence and will leave it to Ms. Chiang to decide whether this is a disciplinary matter upon his return to Sol. Nothing else to report.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Andrew Semyonov
Navigator
CX638D
// Into the black
Sol’s way behind us now. We are officially in the interstellar medium. Nothing but plasma, dust, and dark matter -- and that suits me fine. Besides tweaking our speed and trajectory a few times a day, I don’t have much to do until we hit Proxima. So I’m treating this like a cruise. If anyone needs me I’ll be on the observation deck drinking whatever I can find in the galley. Keyes always brings the good stuff.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Nelson Keyes
Chief Engineer
TI312W
// Diagnostics
(text-style: "condense")[Pulse drive: 20-358-398 ... OK
Main thrusters: 50-935-099 ... OK
Auxiliary thrusters: 84-932-378 ... OK
Life support: 74-395-278 ... OK
Gravity generation: 49-850-984 ... OK
Deck pressure: 96-394-945 ... OK
Power supply: 83-959-187 ... OK]
=== Engineer’s Notes ===
Good numbers across the board. She's holding velocity well. I’ve increased the surge threshold in the pulse drive slightly, which might save us a few weeks. Not that it really matters, but I needed something to keep me occupied.
Tavares has been down here a lot lately. Kid is nice enough, and I appreciate having a second pair of hands, but he’s company through and through. I didn’t tell him about the drive adjustment. It’ll end up in one of those reports and next thing I know I’ll be greasing tourist shuttles with Thorsen on the frontier.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
WD958L
// Arrival at Neptune
We have a day to kill while the pulse drive charges, but I won’t be leaving the ship. These backwater stations have a reputation for a reason. Keyes doesn’t seem to mind, though. He’s drinking his shore leave away in some spacer dive with the fugitives and smugglers. The sooner we get into the black the better.
We should reach Proxima in 49 weeks, give or take. Andy is one of the most reliable navigators I know, so I’m confident we’ll hit our deadline. If we don’t I’ll have to answer to Sonmi. They’ve invested trillions in this colony and the contract made it clear that delays are unacceptable. These corporate gigs are a headache, but I’m in no position to turn down work -- especially when it pays so well.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Nelson Keyes
Chief Engineer
HJ344Y
// The good old days
While the pulse drive was charging I met up with an old buddy. Frontier stations have a bad rep, and they probably deserve it, but I always take leave whenever I get the chance. I grew up on an orbital station and centrifugal gravity feels like home. Ship gravity’s too light. Feels I’m walking an inch off the ground.
I hadn’t seen old man Thorsen since a Sonmi suit with a grudge ‘reassigned’ him here a year ago. But he’s in good spirits. He always is. We talked shop over a drink or three at Jake's, because engineers only ever talk shop.
He’s putting in for a transfer once the colony on Nysa is up and running, but I told him not to get his hopes up. The selection process is brutal. The only person I know who’s been guaranteed a spot is the new kid, Tavares.
I took a long look at Neptune before I got back on the ship. For the next year it’ll be nothing but stars, stars, and more stars.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Rosana Huck
Science Officer
RH569X
// The big picture
There’s still a lot we don’t know about interstellar space, so I’m taking advantage of the Orkney’s sensors to measure and catalogue polycyclic hydrocarbons. Incredible that this dark void is hiding the building blocks of life. The start of us. Of everything.
Sonmi thinks it’s conquering space, but the idea that they’re the masters of any of this -- even the systems they’ve colonised -- is the kind of short-sighted arrogance I’ve come to expect from them. This colony isn’t as important as they think it is. It’s a drop in an ocean so vast we couldn’t possibly comprehend it.
But if there’s one thing the human race is good at, it’s justifying its existence with deluded ideas of self-importance. We're distracting ourselves from the fact that we’re trespassers here. An evolutionary mistake that got out of hand and reached too far.
Man, I need to get out of this cabin.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span>==== IntOS v6.03 ====
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<span class="redglow">[[TRANSMIT DATA]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
TR132E
// Passing time
I probably should have scrapped the Orkney a year ago. But it was your ship. And as long as she’s still burning fuel, it’s like you’re still around. Yeah, I know what that sounds like. But fuck, this is my first long haul without you. The hours are long and empty.
I used to look forward to these deep space missions. It was the only real time we got to spend together. And now every minute alone on the bridge feels like an eternity. Andy’s good company when he’s on deck, but he spends most of his time in the rec room or with Huck. Seeing them together reminds me of us.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|A]]</span><span class="bigtext">Nelson Keyes
Chief Engineer
JF924R
// Uninvited guest
Spent a few hours reading on the observation deck. Not that there’s much to observe. We’re in deep now, a million miles from anywhere. But there’s something comforting about the stars. I was going to break into the bottle Thorsen gave me as a parting gift, but someone -- by which I mean Andy -- snatched it from the galley. I can’t get mad at the kid, though. Especially when he flashes one of those big, dumb smiles.
When I got back to the engineering deck to see how the ship was doing I caught Tavares snooping around. He was at my console, but he shut it off before I could see what he was doing. I know he’s from the company and technically outranks us all, but any spacer worth a damn knows you never touch the chief engineer’s gear. I don’t care what patch is stitched on your arm.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Bridge Comms
UJ491X
DK: How’s she looking?
AS: Velocity stable. Trajectory alignment needs a nudge, but nothing I can’t handle.
DK: Great. Realign and check pulse count.
AS: Pulse nominal, good numbers. Surge threshold is looking healthy. Keyes has been busy.
DK: Yeah, well, let’s keep that between us.
AS: Of course, skip.
DK: Everything’s green. That’ll do for now. I’ll buzz you if there’s anything else.
AS: I’m heading to the mess. You hungry?
DK: Sure.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Bridge Comms
FR435P
DK: All crew report to bridge.
AS: What’s up, captain?
IT: What’s that?
DK: I don’t know, it says we just received a transmission through the comms array.
RH: Out here?
IT: That’s impossible, we’re months away from the nearest relay.
NK: It looks like gibberish. Junk data. Is the system playing up? I thought this was new?
RH: It is. I ran a systest before we left Neptune and it was working perfectly.
IT: I’ll need a copy of the transmission.
NK: For your report?
IT: That’s right. If you have a problem with that I’d be happy to file an official complaint on your behalf when we dock.
NK: Oh, I bet you would.
DK: Knock it off, you two! Huck, can you make sense of this?
RH: Keyes is right. It looks random. I don’t see any patterns that suggest otherwise. The computer can’t find anything in the infobase either.
AS: Okay, but even if it is just comms trash, it had to come from somewhere, right?
RH: Right.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Bridge Comms
FXR28J
AS: Morning, skip.
DK: Tavares and Keyes are at it again.
AS: Sounds about right. Hey, wait a sec.
DK: What’s wrong?
AS: I’m seeing a lot of drift here.
DK: How much?
AS: Uh, a lot. We’re way off course.
DK: You’ve been monitoring our trajectory, right? How could this have happened?
AS: Yeah. I don’t get it.
DK: Course correct, then send the nav data to my console. I’ll see if Keyes has any ideas.
AS: On it.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Intranet
Direct Message
FE043C
RH: If^di██sk/B█
AS: Uh?
RH: You awake?
AS: Of course. I’m surprised you are, though. You’ve usually passed out by now.
RH: No, I’m awake.
AS: Are you feeling alright?
RH: Come over.
AS: What now?
RH: Ye/s.
AS: Uh, sure.
RH: bring sn#akcs█m6/X</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Rosana Huck
Science Officer
CF934Z
// New frontiers
The sensors have been running since we left drydock and I’m amassing a huge amount of data on molecular clouds, coronal gas, interstellar hydrogen, and everything inbetween. The lab will love this stuff when I relay it back to the university. I can’t do much other than catalogue it here, but I’m enjoying the quiet time.
When we land on Nysa I’ll have a lot more to do. I’m joining the expedition to cross the continent on the southern hemisphere. Pathfinders will scout the route ahead of us, which is kind of reassuring, but who knows what’s waiting for us out there. Alas, I don’t have much of a pioneering spirit, which makes me wonder why I took this job in the first place.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">Nelson Keyes
Chief Engineer
F4346F
// The power situation
I’ve been buzzed a dozen times today about lights going off, consoles powering down, and doors refusing to open. I ran a diagnostic on the power supply and I’m seeing some weird fluctuations. Nothing major, a few amps here and there. But I’ve been greasing the Orkney for years and she’s never acted up like this. Maybe old age is finally catching up with her.
I’m sure Tavares is already thinking about recommending her for reconstitution (Christ, I hate that term) when we dock. But Kirbuk will fight it. She never gives the company an inch. Not many captains like her left.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span><span class="bigtext">System log
Bridge
XS490E
SIGNAL DETECTED
ALIGNING COMMS ARRAY 4C
LINK ESTABLISHED
RECEIVING
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LOGGED (CSAT_DLOG_34_394_CD)</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|B]]</span>=== Terminal VI ===
MEM-384 SYS-945 CHK-129
URX-0M2 ∆ CPO-4X
ROOT KEY // 938948DJEKL438CLK
₪ SECURE CONNECTION
<span class="bigger">(text-style: "fade-in-out")[ [[INCOMING TRANSMISSION | Message]] ]</span>==== CONFIDENTIAL ====
TO: SECID-9020
FROM: SECID-0001
ENCODE X83-XVJ3-8CN3-8CN39-MC84
BEGIN MESSAGE DECRYPTION
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<span class="redglow">> [[ARCH_385_932_893.ARC|A]]</span>=== Terminal VI ===
MEM-384 SYS-945 CHK-129
URX-0M2 ∆ CPO-4X
ROOT KEY // 938948DJEKL438CLK
₪ SECURE CONNECTION
BLACK BOX ANALYSIS COMPLETE
<span class="bigger">(text-style: "fade-in-out")[ [[UPLOAD]] ]</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|E]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
HE319T
// Too many questions
Tavares was up here again asking about the problems we’ve been having with the navigation computer. About the power cuts. Whether we’ll get to the colony on time. Tapping away on that damn datapad he carries around everywhere. I know it’s his job, but lord, does he ever let up? As far as Keyes can tell there’s nothing wrong with the Orkney. At least not mechanically. Maybe Huck will find something in the computer. And where the hell is my navigator?</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Mess Comms
ERG46D
RH: Dina!
DK: What’s up?
RH: I can’t find Andy. We were supposed to meet for breakfast, but he didn’t show. I’ve been looking everywhere.
DK: Okay, calm down. When did you last see him?
RH: Yesterday morning. We usually hang out in the evening, but I’ve been prepping for Nysa.
DK: Let me ping him.
RH: I already tried. He’s not responding. He isn’t in his cabin, or any of the bathrooms. I’ve been looking all morning. Fuck.
IT: Maybe he’s with Keyes.
DK: All crew report to mess. Look, I’m sure he’s just passed out somewhere.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">System log
Corridor D4
GC314D
03:40
PRESSURE OK
03:45
PRESSURE OK
03:50
PRESSURE OK
04:00
PRESSURE OK
04:03
AIRLOCK CYCLE
04:04
AIRLOCK CYCLE
04:05
AIRLOCK CYCLE
04:06
AIRLOCK CYCLE
04:10
PRESSURE OK
04:15
PRESSURE OK
04:20
PRESSURE OK</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Rosana Huck
Science Officer
HR263R
// Moonlighting
Huck has me manning the navcom, which is taking my mind off things a little. Keyes thinks Andy might have gotten drunk and slipped and fell somewhere, but I don’t buy it. I'm sure I would have found him by now. The anxiety is killing me, but I’ve done everything I can.
Something’s seriously wrong with the Orkney's systems, and you don’t have to be a navigator to know that. Every time I try and counter this crazy drift she fights back. It’s like someone else is controlling her.
I can’t take my eyes off the console for long, so I’ve set up camp on the bridge. Dina’s staying here with me too, thank god. I don’t want to be alone in my cabin anymore.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Isaac Tavares
Corporate Envoy
FZ326F
// Report G-487
=== CONFIDENTIAL ===
To: sonmi_so
From: itavares
Navigator Semyonov (employee #751237) has been missing for a week. We’ve searched all decks and holds, but there’s still no trace. Science Officer Huck (employee #861001) is familiar with the navcom and has taken over his duties, although there seems to be a problem with the software. See attached diagnostics.
I’ve been going through the system logs from the night Semyonov disappeared and noticed an anomaly in corridor D4 on the habitation deck. At 04:03 GMT there was an airlock cycle, triggered by an unknown source. A few minutes later the airlock was reset. Very strange indeed.
I also took the liberty of accessing the crew’s direct messages from around the time of the airlock cycle, and I found an interesting conversation between Semyonov and Huck, which I’ve also attached below.
More to follow.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Nelson Keyes
Chief Engineer
K4376O
// Dead weight
In my professional opinion, the Orkney is fucked. But I checked every bolt and didn’t find a thing. Hell, she passed Sonmi’s stress test before we shipped out, and they’ll penalise you for a squeaky chair. So it has to be the software. Huck is looking into it. Poor girl’s had all the life sucked out of her since Andy vanished, but we need her to figure this out.
Tavares hasn’t been down here much the last few days. Something’s keeping him busy, which is good news for me. I tried being patient with him at first, but he’s always sticking his nose in, questioning my decisions. I know tension between spacers and company reps is always gonna be there, but this guy is something else. Frankly, I can’t stand the son of a bitch.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Corridor D6 Comms
RQ536Y
IT: I just find it interesting that you invited Semyonov over to your cabin the night he disappeared.
RH: I already told you, Tavares. I didn’t speak to him at all that night.
IT: The logs suggest otherwise.
RH: Why the fuck are you looking through our personal messages anyway?
IT: Sonmi affords me certain...
RH: Bullshit! Dina’s gonna hear about this.
IT: I don’t think so.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Isaac Tavares
Corporate Envoy
TR432Y
// Report G-512
=== CONFIDENTIAL ===
To: sonmi_so
From: itavares
Science Officer Huck (employee #861001) has been detained as per Sonmi statute 4039B. I’ve confiscated her comms badge until I can determine her involvement in the disappearance of Navigator Semyonov (employee #751237). I’ll be taking over the navcom until her release, which I have base level training in. Kirbuk will object, but I’ll remind her who’s in charge.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Rosana Huck
Science Officer
TE472D
// Escape
Tavares thinks I’m still in the supply room. I fried the control panel and slipped back to my quarters. Dina needs to know what he’s done. Then I need to find out why he planted that log in my console. I don’t know why he’s trying to pin Andy’s disappearance on me. I don’t know why any of this is happening. Fuck. This was supposed to be a routine flight, and now my friend is gone and everything’s falling apart.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|C]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
FR734E
// Road to nowhere
We’ve been completely locked out███ ██/avcom. The controls won’t respond, sensors are feeding back junk, interface is screwed. We don’t know where we’re going. And by the sound of ██e pulse drive spinning, we’re speeding up. A console in engineering overloaded and Keyes is e██r in medical. Tav██/’*, that piece of shit, is locked in the ca██/&9;. I think it’s safe to say this’ll be my last Sonmi contract.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">Rosana Huck
Scien█/”9 Officer
YI612E
// Game over
This is it then. The end of the road. We’ve been flying blind for almost a month now. Keyes is dead. Andy is too, I guess. And Tava██/$”s is like a zombie. He doesn’t speak to us anymore. He just sits staring at the navcom in silence. I can’t access any of the Orkney’s syste█/s. I can’t do a fucking thing. Even Dina seems to have lost the will to go on.
The temperature is dropping and the air is getting thin. Something’s wrong with the life support. It’s like the ship is slowly dying. Dina mentioned using the planetary ███/#^anding shuttle as a lifeboat the other day, but we’re in the middle of nowhere, and it only has life support for a week. But I suppose it’s better than freezing to death here.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">Intranet
Direct Message
GR583E
AS: /#██^
RH: What the fuck. Andy?!
AS: No.
RH: Who is this? Tavares?
AS: No.
RH: This isn’t funny. Who the fuck is this.
??: Home.
RH: Home?
??: Going home█/$^
RH: Where’s home?
??: We’re going home.
RH: Who are you?
??: We have to go home.
RH: Is that where you’re taking us?
??: It’s the only way.
RH: Where is your home?
??: Far. It’s the only way.
RH: What have you done to the ship? We’re dying. We won’t survive the journey.
??: It doesn’t matter. We need to go home. I█t’s; ‘“█theoo nly Wayy
RH: We can take you home.
??: No. You’ll stop us going home.
USER OFFLINE</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">Intranet
Direct Message
██39C
RH: Talk to me. Please.
??: █#7(FD”.
RH: What happened to Andy?
??: We're going home. It’s the only way.
RH: Where is your home? Where did you come from?
??: We were lost, for so long. Far from home.
RH: Did you kill Andy? Where is he?
??: We’ve been away from home for so long. We need to g█”%^ home. It’s the oi█3&*way5
RH: Fuck you! Where's my friend?!
??: He wouldn’t let us go home. It’s the only way. You can't stop us.
USER OFFLINE</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">Isaac Tavares
Corporate E██/$oy
FE372Y
// Repo██ G-566
=== CONFIDENT█AL ===/^
To: sonmi_so
From: itavares
Captain Kirbuk (employee #426031) and Science Officer Huck (employee #861001) have trapped me in cargo hold C. Upon my arrival on Nysa I will be filing an official complaint with Son FYUCJ FYUCKJF FUCK IT
FUCK IT FU██”/%tIT
FUCK THEM
FU;LC
KD████’D$r/$$$%^%</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
RT7821Q
// asdasfasfdasfasfas
Tavares is gone. We haven’t seen him for over a week. Huck thinks she mi█4ht have found a way into the shi██ systems. I don’t know why I’m still keeping these logs. Force of habit. If anyone is reading this please contact Jana Kirbuk on J█*4^ and █”/ll her what happened to me. The thought of her not knowing is killing me.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|D]]</span><span class="bigtext">=== AUTOMATED DISTRESS SIGNAL ===
8C83NXK
REPEAT? LOOP
FREQUENCY FG-34X9-3
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
UKCSS ORKNEY
ID 903-828-849-838
GRAVE AND IMMINENT THREAT REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|E]]</span><span class="bigtext">Dina Kirbuk
Captain
FT532E
// Final rep██/$*
The ship is lost. The mission is over.
Nelson Keyes is dead. Andrew Semyonov and Isaac Tavares are missing, presumed dead.
We’ve lost control of the ship and our destination is unknown. Something -- an intelligence -- has infected our systems. It ██”$nts to go home, but we don’t know what that means. We’ve tried communicating, but it won’t listen. It wants the ship, but it doesn’t need us. I don’t think we’re going to survive.█/$
This is Dina Kirbuk, captain of the UKCSS Orkney, signing off. God help us.</span>
< <span class="redglow">[[BACK|E]]</span><span class="bigtext">Transcript
Bridge Comms
FT843E
DK: Any █%uck?
RH: I think so. I’█$(
DK: What can you see?█$U
RH: I'm in!
DK: Can you sto██& he ship?
RH: Yeah, I'v█
DK: We're slowi█%# down!
R█: They know I’m in here. They’ve f█$%nd the backdoor. I can’t... fuck!
DK: What’s that?
RH: They’re flushing the ox█$)gen. They’re trying to kill us.
DK: Forget it, let’s go to the shuttle!
██$%: But I might be able to...
DK: Rosana, we have to go NOW.</span>
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TO: SECID-9020
FROM: SECID-0001
ENCODE X46-XVJ8-4CN3-5CR39-MC84
BEGIN MESSAGE DECRYPTION
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